Rail-joint.



Patented May 28, I90l.

RAIL JOINT.

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A. K-R'ASHUWI'TfZ &. A. CGHE.

(pplcation led Mar. 8, 1901.)

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NtTnD STATES `ATEr FFCQ - RAIL-JOINT.

sPnorFreATioN forming part oftewel-s Patent No. 675,225, dated May as, 190i. Application ined Marcil s, 1901i serrano. torete. (romano useful improvements in rail-joints, and hasv for its object to dispense with the form of bolts and nuts now generally employed for connecting the fish-plates in position upon the rails.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure `l is a side elevation of a portion of a pair of railroad-rails joined together in accordance with our invention. Fig.` '2 is a longitudinal sectional view taken on the line 2 2 of-Figr3. Fig. 3 is a transverse vertical sectional View taken on the line 3 3 of Fig. l2. Fig. 4 is a detail side and edge view of the locking-key.

To put our invention into practice, we'provide -the web 1 of the rails with oblong holes 2 and provide one iish-plate 3 with integral pins 4, which project through the holes 2 in the web of the rails and throughthe registering apertures or holes 5 in the opposite ishplate 6. This fish-plate 6 may be of the usual form employed, with the exception that the openings 5 therein are oblong to correspond with the oblong openings 2` in the web of the rail and to the shape of the bolts or `pins 4. These bolts or pins `4 are each formed integral with the inner face of the fish-plate 3 andl are substantially elliptical or oval in crosssection and provided near their outer ends with an oblong opening 7 for the reception of.

provided and are inserted in the respective vend -bolt-s or pins, such a construction permit- Lting the employment of the locking-bars at a curve or turn, which could not be accomplished bya single locking-bar. The holes in :the web` of the rails and in the fish-plate 6 are clined shoulder l0 with the walls of the shoulder in the'two en d bolts, this shoulder limitingthe inward movementofthe locking-bar, so as to form a space 14 between the head and i the end pins .to permit the striking of the head todrive the locking-bar out of the bolts when the securing-key l12has been removed. .Y Havingy thus fully described our invention, what we claimas new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In combination with the rails having apertures inthe web thereof, a fish-platecarrying integral pins, substantially elliptical in cross-section and provided near their free ends with oblong openings, a fish-plate having openings to register with the openings in the web of the rails, the said pins carried by the first mentioned fish plate projecting through the openings in the web of the rails and the openings of the last-mentioned fishplate, a pair of locking-bars passing through the oblong apertures in the ends of said pins, said locking-bars each having a head on one end with a shoulder on one edge adjacent to said head to limit the inward movement of the locking-bars, and keys passing through the inner ends of said locking-bars to secure the same in position, substantially as described.

In" testimony whereof we affix our signatures in the presence of two witnesses.

AUeUsT KRAsHowrrz. ANDREW cosi-m.

Witnesses:

JOHN NoLAND, 4J. P. APPLEMAN. 

